Gloucester’s Tomos Williams has made historical past by turning into the primary scrum-half and first Wales worldwide to be named Premiership Participant of the Season on the Rugby Awards on Tuesday night.
Williams has been one of many predominant driving forces behind Gloucester’s much-improved season, along with his kind incomes him a British and Irish Lions call-up for this summer season’s journey to Australia.
One among solely two Welshmen in Andy Farrell’s squad, Williams beat off sturdy competitors from George Ford, who the Lions have neglected regardless of an excellent season with Sale Sharks, Tub’s Springbok prop Thomas du Toit and membership team-mate Finn Russell, and Saracens star Tom Willis.
Not one of the 20 earlier winners, listed on the backside of the article, performed scrum-half.
Williams’ soon-to-be Lions teammate, Henry Pollock, was recognised because the Breakthrough Participant of the Yr for the influence he has made for membership and nation. Pollock was sensible in Saints’ run to the ultimate of the Investec Champions Cup, throughout which era he gained his first senior cap for England, marking the event with two tries towards Wales.
In the meantime, Tommy Freeman, who will be a part of Pollock and Williams in Australia, was named as England’s finest males’s participant. Freeman turned the primary England participant to attain in every spherical of the Six Nations in 2025.
A fourth Lion, Bristol’s Ellis Genge, obtained an award for his excellent work in the neighborhood.
There’s just one Henry Pollock!
UNREAL season for the younger star 👏
✅ Saints new star
✅ First England cap
✅ Lions name up#TheRugbyAwards #GallagherPrem | @Defender— Premiership Rugby (@premrugby) June 3, 2025
The Rugby Awards came about within the Metropolis of London as a three way partnership between Premiership Rugby, the Rugby Gamers Affiliation (RPA), Premiership Ladies’s Rugby (PWR) and Rugby Soccer Union (RFU).
Leicester Tigers’ Meg Jones was honoured because the PWR’s Participant of the Season, whereas Bristol’s Millie David – the PWR’s joint prime try-scorer – gained the PWR Breakthrough award.
Tub’s treble-chasing Johann van Graan and Hartpury’s league-winning head coach Sean Lynn, who has since taken on the Wales Ladies’s job, gained their respective Director of Rugby of the Season awards.
Zoe Aldcroft, who led England to yet one more Guinness Six Nations Grand Slam, was voted as the perfect Purple Roses participant in 2025.
Full checklist of award winners:
Gallagher Participant of the Season: Tomos Williams (Gloucester Rugby)
Breakthrough Participant of the Season, introduced by Defender: Henry Pollock (Northampton Saints)
Director of Rugby of the Season, introduced by London Delight: Johann van Graan (Tub Rugby)
Neighborhood Participant of the Season, introduced by Funding Circle: Ellis Genge (Bristol Bears)
Gallagher Premiership Rugby High Strive Scorer, introduced by Christopher Ward: Ollie Hassell-Collins (Leicester Tigers), Gabriel Ibitoye (Bristol Bears) – 13
PWR Participant of the Season, introduced by Clinique: Meg Jones (Leicester Tigers)
PWR Breakthrough Participant of the Season, introduced by Defender: Millie David (Bristol Bears)
PWR Director of Rugby of the Season, introduced by Asahi: Sean Lynn (Gloucester Hartpury)
PWR High Strive Scorer, introduced by Christopher Ward: May Campbell (Saracens), Millie David (Bristol Bears) – 16
England Males’s Participant of the Season, introduced by Advanta Wealth: Tommy Freeman (Northampton Saints)
England Ladies’s Participant of the Season, introduced by LexisNexis Danger Options: Zoe Aldcroft (Gloucester Hartpury)
Vodafone Enterprise RPA Acquire Line Award: Josh Bassett (Leicester Tigers), Josh Caulfield (Bristol Bears), Harry Glover (Nice Britain 7s), Harry Thacker & Jake Woolmore (Bristol Bears)
The RPA Blyth Spirit Award: Taylor Gough
The shortlists for the Gallagher Premiership Rugby awards had been chosen by a panel consisting of Rachael Burford (RPA), Christian Day (RPA), Jill Douglas (ITV, BBC), Ali Eykyn (TNT Sports activities), Hugh Godwin (The i Paper), Chris Jones (BBC), Alex Lowe (The Occasions), Gavin Mairs (Telegraph), Ugo Monye (BBC, TNT Sports activities), Nick Mullins (TNT Sports activities) and Claire Thomas (BBC, TNT Sports activities).
Previous Premiership Participant of the Season winners:
2024/25: Tomos Williams (Gloucester)
2023-24: Henry Slade (Exeter)
2022-23: Ollie Lawrence (Tub)
2021-22: Ben Earl (Saracens)
2020-21: Sam Simmonds (Exeter)
2019-20: Jack Willis (Wasps)
2018-19: Danny Cipriani (Gloucester)
2017-18: Vereniki Goneva (Newcastle)
2016-17: Jimmy Gopperth (Wasps)
2015-16: Alex Goode (Saracens)
2014-15: George Ford (Tub)
2013-14: Mike Brown (Harlequins)
2012-13: Tom Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
2011-12: Chris Robshaw (Harlequins)
2010-11: Tom Wood (Northampton Saints)
2009-10: Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints)
2008-09: Chris Robshaw (Harlequins)
2007-08: James Simpson-Daniel (Gloucester)
2006-07: Martin Castrogiovanni (Leicester Tigers)
2005-06: Mike Catt (London Irish)
2004-05: Martin Corry (Leicester Tigers)
